That scene from ¡Viva los Muertos! where Venturestein's in the learning bed watching the video about sweatshops always seemed like such a weird, unnecessary digression for a show that's regularly stuffed with story, yet here we are, six or seven years later, and what I always viewed as kind of a throwaway scene just…

Your reference to the Rusty's confession scene just reminded me that on the commentary for that episode Jackson and Doc tease a "What's It All About, Ted?" episode featuring a return of the Dr. Venture/Teddy Ruxpin duo, and I really, really hope they didn't throw out that (fully outlined, apparently) idea between now…

You are indeed correct. Now that I know a little more about the behind-the-scenes staff of the show, it's a lot of fun finding his presence overtly crop up here and there.

Well… shirling is a good sketch, too.

He also effortlessly breaks down the walls between social cliques via his friendship with Daniel.

You can actually see him doing this before his photo is taken in the opening credits, just barely in the left side of the frame.

1) Dave
2) Mark (On the strength of the Hotel La Rut sketches alone)
3) Bruce
4) Kevin
5) Scott

Yes, at the very least I would have loved the alternate sketches to appear on the disc of special features that every boxset had. Splitsider put together a pretty thorough breakdown of all the "lost" material: http://splitsider.com/2012/…

These reviews are fantastic, and I have come to them way too late. Any chance you can archive these somewhere? I'm just getting into Soderbergh.

That sequence of orange jokes is one of the most perfectly executed pieces of joke layering I've ever seen.

My favourite part about people discussing when Aqua Teen went downhill is that nobody seems to know what constitutes a season of that show, at least in the early going.

I'm glad that you brought up "The Chump." That episode along with "Whistleblower" and "PDA" were kind of beautiful in how they demonstrated just how far Andy had grown (imagine the Andy of season 3 having a conversation with Michael even remotely like the one he has in "The Chump") — particularly in the way he…

I maintain that, if edited properly, the Michael Scott Paper Company arc could have been The Office Movie.

I think Rock Show's the first Parks and Rec episode that really works, and is something of the show's Diversity Day, so to speak. 

Yeah, I hate the way they've thrown Andy under the bus this season. For as inconsistently as he's been written in the past I could at least reconcile his arc through seasons 3 - 7 (and, in spite of everything, there were times during that period I'd call him my favourite character if only for the quality of his jokes…

For reasons I cannot fully explain, the opening notes of this video's song made me want to go fishing in a Zelda game.

I always read Melissa's Dragon Mastress and Jason's Dragon characters as parallels Brendon created for Linda and Andrew. If you couple that with the fact that Andrew only appears once more in the series before seemingly disappearing from Brendon's life once again (since, like Jason's dragon, he is now her "slave"),…

Yeah, I always think of this as the prototypical Oakley and Weinstein episode. If it hadn't happened already, I suspect this is the moment they fell in love with the Skinner and Chalmers duo.

Weird thing about season 9 is that there's basically four different showrunners and writing staffs. There's Oakley and Weinstein's season 8 holdovers (City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson, The Principal and the Pauper, Lisa the Simpson), Al Jean and Mike Reiss' last two episodes produced during season 7 (Lisa's Sax,…

I always thought of this subplot as one of my favourite Coach stories in the series, but really it's just this scene that I love.